River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1887-02-17
HISTORY OF THE WEEK.

DEAtANANt btAN VI AAAh ~
lice officers assaulted by desperadoes at
Ravenna, died at Cleveland, Ohio, on the
sth. He leaves a wife and four children.
Detective Hulhgan was forty years old,
and was the oldest detective in Cleveland
IN point of service. Every daily paper in
the city is receiving money for the relief of
his family. The post norton examination
revealed ten terrible wounds in his head.
The skull IN one place was fractured from
the left temple to the base Of the brain.
The coupling pin that was used upon him
weighs seven pounds and Is covered with "a
newspaper tightly wound with Irvine.
Capt. Hoehn, the other wounded officer, IS
improving rapidly. although shot twice and
struck with the coupling pin several times.
Peter Smith has been arrested at Columbus
on suspicion OF being one of the assailants-
He bears traces of having been in an ARRAY,
but can not satisfactorily explain De
tectives are after two men who visited =
store at kensingtOn ON the night of the
rescue. bought court plaster and later
called for more: also carhOllc acid and
probe. One Of them had an injured arm.
Heavy rains and melted SNOW in
Michigan and Illinois have swollen the
streams and caused much damage. Al
Grand Rapids, Mich. some Of the streets
were under water ON the sth, ana houses
were afioat: at Saranac the track of the De
trOit Grand Haven and Milwaukee rad
at Detroit, lOU men We're kept from work
the water having ut out the furnaces. AT
Elgiu, Ill, considerable part OF the town
was flooded. two l. .idges washed away and
cellars and Easements filled with water.
The stock of Cooks publishing house was ru-
ined The loss there is many thousand dol
lars Joliet, Ill. had a similar experience,
railroad and other bridges being carried
away and business suspended.
Ii i reported from PittsSburg and
on up into the Pennsylvania oil region, that
heavy rains have been the cause of havoc
by water Oil City and FraI Kiln were part
IL under water ON the 18th. ana Landslide
occurred on the Lake Shore K. X. carrying
the road bed into French Greek, near
Franklin, stopping travel for two or three
DAYS The y Z. a o. track was under water
ut that place. Between 10 and II a. m, a
terrific gale prevailed at Greensburg doing
great damage to dwellings. public buildings,
derrickS. etc. One side of the court house
was blown in, and the Jail smoke stack
blown down. Many buildings were I'M
rooted.
A winter cyclone visited the city of
Canton and the village cf Louisville, both
in stark county, Ohio. about : a. m. on
the 18th, lasting half an hour. Though the
wind was unprecedentedly furious, but
little hafm was done at Canton, kut at
Louisville fences and trees were swept
down. houses unrDOfed. windows broken.
chimnevs blown down. the roof of the con
vent school lifted of aud tbs slate roof Of
7 the Catholic church scattered In the gale
No one was hurt.
At A. VI. ON the morning of the
| 18th. a passenger train on the c. a r. r. r.,
went thrOugha bridge just outside of the
| city limits of Cleveland Ohio. The train
/ was running 50 slowly that the smoking ear
! caught ON the abutments of the bridge and
4 hung there saving the passenger cars from
4 going down. The baggage car rolled down
| the eIahaRkment. and the baggage master.
| an important witness in the recent tragedy
which cost Detective Hulligan his life, was
! seriously hurt. No other person was IN
| jured
AZ the Patti concert at San Francisco
! Cal. on the 9th, man Il years old located
/ III the gallery undertook to explode a bomb,
/ and was himself good deal injured, but no
/ other damage was done. The audience be
| came nearly panic stricken, but some news.
/ paper men in box grasped situation and
/ called Patti to the stage and she immedi-
/ ately sang Home. Sweet Home the peo-
I ole all quieted down and the concert was
/ successfully concluded
The great longshoremen : strike at
/ New GOrk ended 50 entirely that on the
] lUtn there were no lnttcaLlbiS Lndl any VII
/ ticultv existed between the IOnSshOrenen
and the railroad and steamship lines Al
/ the railroad piers the loading OF cars on the
/ big floats was being carried on with regular
I ity aud at the coastwise and southern port
steamship companies all evidences OF the
recent strusgsS were obliterated.
On SUNDAY evening" during quar-
rel over cards in Chicago saloon, Daniel
| 10 Tlorio. lately from Genoa, slashed Felice
| RAYMOND; over the hand with "a razor An
| instant later Raymondi's companion, Fran
/ cescO Frimaric, plunged stllletto INTO the
heart Of FlOriO He sank 10 tie HOOr dead,
while the other two hastily made tholf eS-
cape The two had been carousing together
since early morning
Secretary Manning's New York
bank. the Western National, Capital $1,000
co.. wac organized on the 9th. President,
| Daniel Manning. Vice Pres, {. n Jordan,
Cashier r. BlankinghOTn. Sidney Dillon.
/ Ex-NayoF Grace. Congressman Scott Of Pa.
j r. Mclean, CINCINNATI, are among the
stockholders. NF. Mannlng's salary Is TO be
| $4,000 "a year
The Jail at Murfreesboro. Tenn.
burned Sunday at la. m. Ten men on the
upper floor escaped, but three men in one
OF the lower cages could not be reached.
Tbsy cried piteously for help until tue
| flames reached them. The names of the
three are MCSes Massey, Jack Irwin and
/ Henry Smith.
| President Cleveland has allowed the
act appropriating 10000 year to provide
/ terms and equipments for the militia to BE
/ come a law without his signature. His fan
urs to sign the bll within ten days IS re
I garded as an oversight as he was not known
/ to object 10 II.
The annual statement of the onion
/ Pacific railroad for lss6 shows an increase
/ Of Sq2g. ~ in gross earnings, and a decrease
I Of stif3 262 in net earnings, an increase ~
/ 81 .sljg. es3 in expenses. decrease Of S'4j1i
/ in surplus, an Increase of Si5l,45l as com
/ pared with 1855.
Winnipeg is terribly excited over the
| murder of c. a. Schofield, book-keeper in
! Mcmillan Bros mill office. who was muir
! dered IN tlls office Saturday night and his
I body thrown through a hole in the ice OF
/ the Red River.